Middle East
Iraqi security forces and Kurds gain ground against Islamic State
Iraqi government forces and Shi\'ite militias seized control of the strategic town of Jurf al-Sakhar near Baghdad from Islamic State on Saturday ...Iran hangs woman in defiance of international campaign
Iran Saturday hanged a woman convicted of murdering a former intelligence officer she claimed had tried to sexually assault her, ...Lebanon army fights gunmen in Tripoli, six soldiers killed
Six Lebanese soldiers were killed as the army clashed with Islamist gunmen in northern Lebanon for a second day on Saturday, using ...Egypt declares emergency in northern Sinai
A coordinated assault on an army checkpoint in the Sinai Peninsula killed 30 Egyptian troops on Friday, making it the deadliest single ...US-led strikes kill more than 500 militants in Syria
US-led air strikes in Syria were reported Thursday to have killed more than 500 jihadists in a month, as Kurdish ...Iraqi Kurds approve sending fighters to aid Syrian town
Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobani to relieve fellow ...U.S. involved in seven air strikes on Islamic State targets
U.S. military forces carried out four air strikes on Islamic State targets in Syria on Monday and Tuesday and were ...FBI: US girls may have tried to join jihadis
Three teenage girls from suburban Denver may have been trying to join Islamic State militants in Syria after stealing their ...Washington Post former editor Ben Bradlee dies at 93
In a charmed life of newspapering, Ben Bradlee seemed always to be in just the right place.U.S. reports 12 air strikes against Islamic State in Syria, Iraq
The U.S. military conducted six air strikes against Islamic State militants near the Syrian border town of Kobani on Sunday ...




